There has never been a more affordable time to get into photography than now, contrary to the rising prices of nearly everything else in the world. The key is to find a gently used or well loved DSLR that grows more and more affordable as people migrate to mirrorless systems.

While there have been small improvements to image sensors over the past decade, image quality hasn’t progressed in the same way that auto focus or image stabilization has. Thus cameras pushing 15+ years old still produce fantastic quality images while lacking modern creature comforts.

So, I bought a Sony FE 24-50mm f2.8 for my Nikon Zf and if you’re like me, you probably have quite a few questions. Why this lens instead of a Nikon lens? How does this work and does it actually work reliably? There must be drawbacks right, you can’t just use another brands lens on a camera… Can you? 

I had all of these questions myself and couldn’t really find great answers online, thus I’ve spent the last 4 months living with this setup to test the auto focus, functionality, and discover all the quirks and features of mashing two brand’s together into what I think is an ultimate setup. The results? Well they were better than I expected and the best part was discovering what this means for the future of Nikon’s Z Mount.

If you’re like me, you’ve never been really happy with the images that come right out of the iPhone, specifically for anything photography related. Snapshot images or memories? It handles those swimmingly - they just have that “phone” look, typically associated with overly sharp images where dark and bright areas look too crushed.

I figured there had to be a better solution out there, thus a few months ago I spent a lot of time trialing different apps on the iPhone to see if something existed that allowed me to shoot pleasing images without any editing required. From that research, I discovered my current favorite solution, an app called No Fusion. In this article I want to go over the best ways to use the app and deep dive into what makes it great.

Have you ever been curious to know what spending more money on a camera system actually gets you? What if I told you that going from a $100 camera to a $10000 camera, you’ll actually lose features. To find out, I’ve got six tiers to showcase everything you could possibly gain, or lose when spending more money.

I’ve spent a couple months shooting with the Fujifilm X-E5 and put together my full review on it on my YouTube channel. Throughout that review I was testing a few new (and old) recipes on the Fujifilm X-E5 that I wanted to share here if you’re interested in using them yourself!

These recipes are not exclusive to the Fujifilm X-E5. Any camera with the X-trans 5 sensor can utilize these such as the Fujifilm X100VI, Fujifilm X-T5, Fujifilm X-T50, and a few others. Honestly these likely work great on other sensors as well (I got to use a few on the GFX100SII at some point), but your results may vary.